Family
In human context, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children. Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrilocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a wife, husband, and children, also called nuclear family); and consanguinal (also called an extended family) in which parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent's family.
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... on the side, and struggled to support his family ... to take to the streets to help support his family ... the five pennies that constituted his first day's receipts, his contribution to the family budget.” His mother took jobs as a midwife, and three of his sisters worked wrapping cigars, common for immigrant girls ...
... After Paul's death, Milutin and Dragutin concluded a peace, and went to war against Šubić family ... By 1325, the Branivojević family had emerged as strongest in Hum ... as vassals of Bosnian Ban, become the leading family of Hum in 1330s ...
... Emily Smith had strong family ties to Chelsea, which centered around the church, in which her family took an active role ... In 1895 the Armstrong family moved from their brownstone row house at 347 West 29th Street to another similar house at 26 West 97th Street in the Upper West Side ... In order to improve his health the Armstrong family moved in 1902 from the Upper West Side into a house at 1032 Warburton Avenue in Yonkers, which overlooked the Hudson ...
... might look like the following record member { // member of a family member next string firstName integer age } record family { // the family itself family next string lastName string address member members ... This is because both the list of families and the list of members within the family are stored in two linked lists using the same data structure (node), and this language does not have parametric ...
... After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 the family holdings in that country were gone, and all income from there ceased ... The family became destitute ... A friend of the family, a Russian sculptor, Naum Gabo, took Michael under his wing, so to speak ...
More definitions of "family":
- (noun): An association of people who share common beliefs or activities.
Example: "The message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"
Synonyms: fellowship
- (noun): A person having kinship with another or others.
Example: "He's family"
Synonyms: kin, kinsperson
- (noun): A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities.
Synonyms: syndicate, crime syndicate, mob
- (noun): A social unit living together.
Example: "He moved his family to Virginia"
Synonyms: household, house, home, menage
- (noun): Primary social group; parents and children.
Example: "He wanted to have a good job before starting a family"
Synonyms: family unit
- (noun): People descended from a common ancestor.
Example: "His family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
Synonyms: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
- (noun): (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera.
Example: "Sharks belong to the fish family"
Famous quotes containing the word family:
“It seems to me that upbringings have themes. The parents set the theme, either explicitly or implicitly, and the children pick it up, sometimes accurately and sometimes not so accurately.... The theme may be “Our family has a distinguished heritage that you must live up to” or “No matter what happens, we are fortunate to be together in this lovely corner of the earth” or “We have worked hard so that you can have the opportunities we didn’t have.””
—Calvin Trillin (20th century)
“The agent’s steep and steady stare
Corroded to a grin.
Why, you black old, tough old hell of a man,
Move your family in!”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“I acknowledge that the balance I have achieved between work and family roles comes at a cost, and every day I must weigh whether I live with that cost happily or guiltily, or whether some other lifestyle entails trade-offs I might accept more readily. It is always my choice: to change what I cannot tolerate, or tolerate what I cannot—or will not—change.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)